May 29, 2013: Morning
- After 70 years, U.S. recognizes army volunteers who fought in Alaska during World War II as veterans.
- Carbon dating tests show mislabeled Torah in Bologna is actually 850 years old—possibly the world's oldest.
- Disturbing treatise from 1543 reveals Martin Luther as an anti-Semite whose beliefs propagated the Holocaust.
- Some speculate anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis could be behind historical descriptions of what was believed to be demonic possession.
- A fungus is wiping out amphibian species.
- What happens inside the cocoon when a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly.
- Photographer Kerényi Zoltán overlays anachronistic photos of places with his own photos of the exact same locales.
- Related: Julien Donada sends postcards to himself from the past, then revisits what the cards depict in the present.
- In China, exact replicas of European towns are viewed as "a form of mastery" rather than kitsch.
- On Liberace's musical substance.
- I raise my beers toward him and head back to the music, nodding at the man with the machine gun as I enter.
- The video for Ai Weiwei's heavy metal song "Dumbass" depicts an "inch-accurate" version of his cell.
- On Monday, his 91st birthday, actor Christopher Lee released a heavy metal album, Charlemagne: The Omens of Death.
- Fretboard heatmaps depict how often musicians play certain notes on guitar.
- Why some hand gestures survive while others die out—and why, eventually, we may not need any at all.
- A compendium of celebrities' middle fingers.
- Pairing classic video games with craft brews.
- How to take the boring out of Monopoly: Play it as it was originally intended.